Curtain pole or rod.



nrrnn ELWOOD C. PHILLIPS, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR TO STANDARD DEVELOPMENT COMPANY, INCORPORATED, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

CURTAIN POLE. 'OR ROD.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. I718,021, dated January 6, 1903.

Application led July 5,1902. Serial No. 114,367. (No model.)

.lo @ZZ whom, it 'may concern;

i Be it known that I, ELwooD C. PHILLIPS, a citizen of the United States of America, and a resident of Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Curtainf Poles or Rods, of which the following is a specification.

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The present invention relates to that class of curtain-supporting rods or poles which are formed from a closely-coiled wire, au example of which is shown in my former patent, No. 703,214, of June 24, 1902; and the present improvement has for its object to provide a simple, durable, and convenient means of attachment for such class of rods to the window or other frame, all as will hereinafter more fully appear, and be more particularly pointed out in the claim. I attain such object by the construction and arrangement of parts illustrated in the accompanying drawing, which is a fragmentary elevation, partly provided with integrally-formed attaching-z eyes 2 at its respective ends for convenient attachment to the end-attaching brackets in manner hereinafter described. Y

3 represents the respective end-attaching brackets, which in the present improvement are provided with horizontally-arranged tubular collars 4L at their forward or projecting ends, as shown.

5 represents the attaching-hooks,by means of which attachment is made between the respective ends of the tensioned curtain pole or rod 1 and the attaching-brackets 3. Such attaching-hooks Will comprise in my preferred construction, as shown in the drawing, main central cylindrical body portions adapted to it the bore of the tubular collars 4c of the attaching-brackets 3, hooked eyes 6, adapted for ready engagement with attachment-eyes 2 of the pole or rod 1, and enlarged heads 7 at the ends opposite to the hooked ends 6. Such enlarged heads are adapted to have abutment against the outer ends of the tubular collars 4 and receive the strain of the tensional curtain-pole, so that the parts will be automatically drawn and held in proper position by the tension of such curtain pole or rod.

A material feature of the present invention consists in forming the hooked eyes 6 aforesaid of a size equal to or slightly less than the diameter of main cylindrical body portion aforesaid in order to permit of the ready endwise introduction of the said parts into place in the tubular collars 6 in the usual assemblage of the curtain-rod parts.

Having thus fully described my said inven tion, what I claim as new, and desire to se cure by Letters Patent, is

An extensible curtain pole or rod formed of a spiral winding ofvresilient material and integrally formed with attachiug-eyes at its respective ends, in combination with attaching brackets formed with horizontallyarranged tubular collars, and attaching means each comprising a cylindrical body fitting a tubular collar and having at one end a hook for engaging an eye at the end of the curtain pole or rod, 'and at the other end an enlarged head adapted to have abutment against the outer end of such tubular collar, said hook having a size equal to or slightly less than the diameter of the cylindrical body aforesaid and adapted to permit the ready endwise introduction of the parts into place substantially as set forth. Y

Signed at Chicago, Illinois, this 1st day of July, 1902. A

ELWOOD C. PHILLIPS. Witnesses:

ROBERT BURNS, HENRY A. Nor'r. 

